April 20, 2015

Dear Partner:

The Greenlight Capital funds (the Partnerships) returned (1.7)%,1 net of fees and
expenses, in the first quarter of 2015.
The portfolio had an uneventful and unprofitable quarter. Though the broad market did
little, we did even less. Our longs led by Apple (AAPL) and SunEdison (SUNE)
outperformed the market, our shorts went against us by even more, and macro was also
slightly negative.
AAPL shares advanced 13%, as the iPhone 6 has proved to be a blockbuster that drove the
company to 30% revenue growth and 48% EPS growth in the December quarter. AAPL
also announced the April launch of the Apple Watch, its first new product category in five
years. While we have modest expectations for Apple Watch and dont expect AAPL to
maintain this level of growth, the market expects even less, as it continues to value AAPL
shares at a discounted valuation. We believe that AAPL is a superior company that merits
a premium multiple.
SUNE shares rallied 23% during the quarter. At the analyst day in February, the company
said that it would begin generating significant free cash flow sooner than the market had
anticipated, and expected to exit 2016 at a run rate of $3 of cash EPS. The strong outlook
was driven by rapid growth in dividends received from Terraform Power (TERP), the
companys renewable energy-focused affiliate, and a consequent acceleration in the timing
of incentive distribution rights which SUNE expects to receive as TERPs sponsor.
We had one significant loser during the quarter. Micron Technology (MU) shares declined
23%. Weak PC sales drove a shortfall in DRAM demand leading to lower prices and
reduced earnings. Our thesis is that the consolidated DRAM industry will act more
rationally in the face of slower demand, moderating future cyclical declines and leading to
higher profitability through the cycle. The current downturn is the first opportunity to test
this thinking: either the industry will overproduce, fight for share, and kill profitability, or
it will respond sensibly to slower cyclical demand and merit an upward revaluation. While
we are watching industry behavior very closely, we believe our thesis is intact.
Though it has been challenging to find worthy longs, we did make three new long
investments during the quarter.

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AerCap Holdings (AER) is the largest publicly traded aircraft leasing company. Last year,
it bought AIGs aircraft leasing business (ILFC) at a bargain price in an extremely
accretive deal, taking AERs total fleet from around 300 planes to more than 1,300. The
combined business will benefit from AERs lower tax rate and funding costs, as well as
SG&A and operating efficiencies. The deal also provided AER with ILFCs attractivelypriced order book of next-generation planes. We bought our position at an average price of
$41.02, which is less than 8x this years expected earnings. AERs management is wellincentivized, with senior executives receiving new restricted stock units in the ILFC deal,
two-thirds of which will vest only after hitting performance targets. The company has been
well managed and appears poised to grow earnings at a double-digit clip for the next
several years. AER ended the quarter at $43.65.
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI) is an engineering and construction firm with a
significant concentration in energy. CBI shares have fallen in sympathy with declining oil
prices. We found them attractive at an average price of $42.93, which is less than 8x this
years expected earnings. While we believe that energy prices may very well stay lower for
longer, which might eventually lead to a smaller market opportunity, CBI has a sizable
backlog of projects that should support earnings for several years. We also believe that
some market participants are overly concerned about costs associated with two nuclear
facilities under construction that are likely to be completed late and over budget. While the
delays and costs are real, we believe the market is vastly overestimating how much of
those costs will be borne by CBI as opposed to its construction partner (Westinghouse) and
consumers, who will see it in their energy bills. CBI shares ended the quarter at $49.26.
We decided to take another drive in General Motors (GM) and repurchased a fresh stake at
$34.62 per share. We had held GM for about three years before selling it in early 2014,
when we were disappointed with managements earnings guidance. 2015 should be a better
year for GM: the company is a year closer to eliminating its losses in Europe; low gas
prices should stimulate demand for its highly profitable SUV and light truck product lines;
raw material costs are low; and we believe that the worst of the product recalls is behind
them. Finally, GM has acknowledged it might not need quite so much cash lying around
earning zero interest, and it will begin to buy back shares shortly. While GM also trades at
less than 8x 2015 consensus estimates of $4.63 per share, we believe there is an excellent
chance that GM can beat those expectations. GM shares closed the quarter at $37.50.
During the quarter, we reduced our net exposure from 30% to 14%. This move was driven
both from the bottom-up and the top-down.
Bottom-up: Short candidates are easy to find, but as noted above, the opportunity set on the
long side is quite constrained. Most of the investment theses we have reviewed over the
past several months can at best be described as late-cycle opportunities, with valuations
that often ignore historical economic sensitivity. The operating (and in some cases activist)
execution needed to achieve target results has to be rated at Triple Lindy difficulty level.
Top-down: Valuations are on the high side and earnings are in a precarious spot. Last
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comparison quarter of the year. It nonetheless hasnt turned out to be a good quarter
(despite this years snow confining itself mostly to New England). At year-end, first
quarter earnings were supposed to grow about 5%, but now, they are expected to decline
by a similar amount, and this doesnt even include GEs large, anticipated first-quarter
charge as it exits most of GE Capital.
GEs staggering $16 billion after-tax charge will drain another 5-7% from the S&P 500
quarterly earnings. Given that GE is exiting these portfolios after several years of
economic and valuation recoveries and still has to take an enormous loss, the gigacharge
adds clarity to the multi-decade debate about the integrity of GEs reported results. That
GE chose to exit and finally own up to its cumulative chicanery rather than face its first
Fed-supervised stress test is one of the first real successes of Dodd-Frank.
Even if this quarters S&P earnings will ultimately be somewhat better than -5%
(excluding the GE charge) versus the first quarter of 2014 due to lower and beat, this
level of earnings degradation poses a risk to a market trading at a premium multiple of
earnings assisted by record high margins. The full year S&P earnings outlook is even
worse, as the comparisons become more challenging.
Some of these challenges are well known, including lower energy prices directly impacting
that sector (along with many companies that have benefitted from the domestic boom in
energy development), and a stronger dollar reducing the translated effect of foreign
earnings. Less discussed is the productivity bust and its impact on peak margins. At the
bottom of the cycle, firms cut labor faster than output. The higher productivity led to
improving margins, earnings and stock prices. Now labor is being added faster than output,
and with large companies like McDonalds, Walmart and Target announcing pay increases,
unit labor costs are likely to increase further. All told, there is a good chance earnings will
actually shrink this year. We think the market is too high if earnings have, in fact, peaked
for the cycle, and we have reduced our net exposure by adding more shorts.
The bull case is that equities havent yet reached bubble levels at a time when fixed income
is behaving bubbly,2 and that the Fed will support the market. As to the former, it may
prove true. We dont like the proposition of betting on a bubble, though one may yet
emerge (or, more clearly, a bubble might expand beyond the current small group of high
flying stocks). As to the latter, despite all the attention paid to every utterance of any
member of the FOMC, it is clear that the Fed isnt going to add further accommodation
unless conditions deteriorate substantially. How fast it tightens should be less important
than the fact that it will tighten.
With any call like this, there is a good chance we may be proven wrong, and our
performance could suffer especially compared to long-only indices. But this is our best
thinking, and our philosophy is that if we are going have a bad result, it should be based on
our best thinking being proven wrong.
2

Mario Draghi says he sees no sign of a bubble in the sovereign debt market, which raises the question: what does
Mr. Draghi think a bubble in sovereign debt might look like that isnt already evident?

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We have several portfolio exits to report. We sold the last piece of our successful Aetna
investment, which generated a 44% IRR as market concerns about ObamaCare proved
overblown and the company exceeded expectations. Amdocs was a small position that
earned a 24% IRR. This was a cheap stock that became a less cheap stock. It could do
better if it exited the cash hoarding business, but that doesnt seem to be managements
game plan.
We exited a trio of losing shorts that fell victim to takeovers. We closed Safeway at a
sizable loss (-31% IRR) as Albertsons/Cerberus closed its acquisition. We had hoped that
Safeways continued operating deterioration might sour the deal, but the buyer persisted
and got its prize. It wont be profitable for us, but it will be entertaining to see how this
turns out.
We closed a short in Freescale Semiconductor after it announced it would be sold to NXP
Semiconductors. While this appears to be one company with an overvalued stock and
troubling prospects buying another, we decided to exit with a -71% IRR and reassess the
merits of the combined company.
Finally, we exited Lorillard (-25% IRR), which is being taken over by Reynolds American
(RAI). Our thesis didnt work because it took too long for our catalyst to play out namely
the FDA regulation of menthol cigarettes. We still believe that the FDA is gearing up to do
something major in this area, but because it anticipates an extremely aggressive industry
response, it is moving slowly and deliberately. We have rolled our short into a fresh
position in RAI.
Many of you may remember that in both 2003 and 2009 we conducted partner surveys on a
number of topics related to the Partnerships. We found the results to be valuable, and have
made a number of improvements over the years in response to your feedback. We have
decided to conduct another survey this year so that we can hear your views and look for
additional opportunities to improve. You should expect a call from an independent market
research firm to schedule a twenty minute anonymous interview. We appreciate your
willingness to spend your time on this. We intend to discuss the results at our next partner
meeting.
At quarter-end, the largest disclosed long positions in the Partnerships were Apple,
CONSOL Energy, gold, ISS A/S, Micron Technology and SunEdison. The Partnerships
had an average exposure of 102% long and 88% short.

Did it ever occur to you that theres no limit to how complicated things
can get, on account of one thing always leading to another?
E.B. White

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Best Regards,

Greenlight Capital, Inc.

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